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0.. DANIELSQ Railway and Farm Gate.

. Patented Mar. 23,1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES A. DANIELS, OF WATERVILLE, NEW YORK.

RAILWAY AND FARM GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,805, dated March 23, 1880.

Application filed August 21, 1879.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. DANIELS, of Waterville, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway and Farm Gates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to gates for railways and for other purposes, which are constructed so as to be opened by the weight of a railway locomotive or car, or by a vehicle approaching the gate, and arranged to automatically close or shut after the passage of the same.

My invention consists in the combination, with a gate adapted to be oscillated with a supporting-shaft, of a crank on said shaft and a lever or platform engaging with said crank, a spring, and a cam mounted on said oscillating shaft for deflecting said spring, whereby a pressure upon said lever or platform causes the gate to assume a horizontal position, and when released the resistance of the spring returns it to a vertical position.

It also consists in various details and combinations of parts hereinafter to be explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan of a portion of a railwaytrack and a gate embodying my improve ments arranged in connection therewith. Fig. 2 represents a partly sectional side view on the dotted line .00 ac, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of the said track on the dotted line y y, Fig. 1, and an elevation of the gate.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

When employed at a railway-crossing my gate is intended to be placed transversely across the track, for the purpose of preventing cattle from passing along the track.

A designates the rails of a railway-track, and B a shaft extending transversely across the track and supported in suitable hearings, in which it is free to oscillate.

G designates a series of upright bars extending from said shaft and arranged near together. At one and preferably at each end is a crank, at, extending from the said shaft and provided with a crank-pin, b, which, as here represented, is prolonged soas to extend the gate a little on each side of the track.

D designates levers pivoted to the trackrails at c, and preferably provided at their When the gate is intended to be turned or oscillated in either direction the levers D are arranged one upon each side of the gate, and the slots d in their ends are made double, as here represented. When the gate is intended to open only in one direction the levers D may both be arranged on one side of the gate, or one lever only may be used.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that when either of the levers D is depressed the gate will be oscillated or turned toward the opposite side of the shaft A, as indicated by the arrow 6.

In order to effect the automatic closing of the gate I have represented a toe or cam, E, arranged upon the shaft B, and a spring, supported on cross-bars G, and adapted to he deflected by the said toe or cam in opening the gate. When the weight is removed from the levers D the gate will be returned to its upright or closed position by the resilience of the spring F.

When the gate is to be used as a farm-gate a platform for wagons or other vehicles to run over would be substituted in place of the levers D, or the said levers might be attached to said platform.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a gate adapted to be oscillated with a supporting-shaft, of a crank on said shaft, a lever or platform engaging with said crank, a spring, and a cam arranged on said shaft for deflecting said spring, whereby a pressure on the lever or platform causes the gate to assume a horizontal position, and, when released, the resilience of the spring returns it to a vertical position, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the cranked oscillating shaft B, of the levers D, arranged on opposite sides thereof, and provided with the double-curved slots d, fitting upon the crankpins b, the toe or cam E, and spring F, arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CHAS. A. DANIELS.

Witnesses y I. S. WILKINSON, RIoHD. BERRILL. 

